A constitution is framed for ...

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.
A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.
 John Marshall

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
 John Marshall
The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.
 John Marshall
I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.
 John Marshall
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.
 John Marshall
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
 John Marshall